The building is ours. One way out! One way out! One way out!
Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this will be my full Star Wars andor episode 10 video there's
a whole bunch of easter eggs and references we'll break it all down it was probably one of the best
episodes of the series so far if you're brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get
all the episodes and careful for spoilers if you haven't seen the episode yet we'll just start at
the beginning and work our way through shot by shot talking about easter eggs and WTF moments
starting with the episode title it was called one way out which is a reference to their big
prison break because there's only one way out of the Imperial prison and that's why Kino Loy kept
repeating that line of dialogue one way out it's also meant to be a reference to Luthen's speech
at the end of the episode like it's meant to be a parallel for that when he's talking about what
he's sacrificed for the Rebellion with Lonnie the ISB officer in the context of losing speech it's
meant to be the one way out is death like he's saying he sacrificed everything he's basically
trying to say that there's no way out he's trapped just like Lonnie is trapped you can't leave us
we've invested too much time in you when Luthen references his equation from 15 years ago that 15
years puts it right during the middle of Revenge of the Sith when the emperor was creating the m
empire order 66 was going down he realized that he wasn't going to get out of this alive like he's
going to die and if you think about it he's not mentioned at all in the Canon during the events
of Rogue one or later in the timeline I think the reason for that early theory is because he does
wind up dying while creating the Rebellion like he will be successful like the Rebellion will come
together formally as a large fighting force but he will die in the process so it was sort of like a
rallying cry for the prison break like it's really happy moment for them like yeah we're getting out
of here but also kind of a sad tragic moment for Luthen like oh we're getting out of here but the
only way we're getting out one way out is death the actual opening scene is the guards at the
prison in the Medtech taking ooloff's body out but taking it through the work room so that all
the other prisoners have to see it they decide to make their big prison break and even though
it seems like it takes Kino Loy's character a little while to come around like Andy Serkis'
character eventually does tell them very succinct we're never getting out of here you're all
gonna die either on this level or when you get transferred to another one so there is only one
way out for us Andy Serkis also did a couple interviews was talking about his character's
backstory because they don't give you a whole lot of details about his backstory in the actual
series he says he kind of came up with one himself he said that he used to be a merchant character
who spoke out against the empire and that's what got him thrown in prison the first time then Wally
was in prison he sort of tucked his tail between his legs thinking that doing everything that they
asked at the Empire the guard's ass will get him out quicker obviously that not being the case the
other really interesting thing at the beginning of the episode here when they're first deciding like
oh yeah we're definitely going to get out of here is Andor questioning what the Empire is actually
having them build at the prison there like what are they actually having us make and I think the
best theory about that is that these parts are actually for the Death Star itself and they've
been having him create the weapon that will eventually destroy him that will kill him during
Rogue one I think that flows with the themes of the actual series like they're basically using the
people against themselves that's why the Empire is so Insidious then at the ISB dead Resorts briefing
them on the rebel Heist that they're trying to pull on the rebel group because they want to
catch them in the act and they're trying to make it look like this rebel pilot died by accident
when she mentions the ship caffreen rescue Salvage caprine is actually the base that Andor is at at
the beginning of the Rogue one movie the actual Rebel group that they're trying to catch is led
by Anto Krieger the person that Luthen wanted Saw Gerrera to work with meaning that if they would be
successful if he hadn't found out about it during the episode they would have wound up catching saw
Guerrero's group as well but obviously this is all meant to set up the big turn at the end of
the episode when we find out what's going on with Lonnie's character we briefly go back to ferrics
for a hot minute just to check in with Sinta who's been watching andor's home waiting for him to show
up gonna get there eventually but obviously we have to break out of prison first so just gonna
be a hot second before he makes it back but I think this is just meant to remind us that oh we
are coming back to ferrics before the end of the season like they'll end the season on ferricks we
meet that pseudo-crime boss Davo Sculdin, tay kolma wanted Man mothma to borrow money from
to hide her previous donations to the rebels his whole story about visiting Coruscant 30 years ago
would have put him there well before the events of phantom menace in the earlier very early days of
Palpatine Senate run he actually became senator in the days before Chancellor valorum took over
the Senate when he joined the Senate the Supreme Chancellor was named score kalpana it was actually
his master Darth Plagueis who arranged for him to become the senator from Naboo that position also
gave him control over like 36 other worlds inside a single sector so he had a lot of political power
when he started out and it was all part of this long-term Sith plan to slowly take over the Galaxy
Darth Plagueis wanted to plant his apprentice inside the Senate and then have him slowly create
connections so more descent just built his power base then eventually do what you saw happen during
the events of the prequels you have to remember though at a certain point Palpatine wound up
killing Darth Plagueis and becoming the sis Master himself so at a certain point Plagueis plan became
Palpatine's plan we also learned Davo is from Chandrila originally like mon Mothman her husband
and take hulma his whole speech about being rich not having to listen to others opinions is just
to give you more of a Vibe of his character like he's meant to be as slimy as possible
feel just like the other people who would cozy up with Palpatine and just try to use power towards
their own ends they actually did a little bit of this during the tales of the Jedi episodes
where you learn about a lot of corrupt Senators during the events of the prequels or before the
events of the prequels technically the whole idea is that even before Palpatine came along there was
a lot of corruption in the Senate which is why it was so easy for him to take over the Senate
if you remember Mama's big concern in this at least before their conversation was that she'd be
blackmailed for political favors it turns out that was the least of her problems he wants his son to
become engaged to mon mothma's daughter because according to their Customs they can get married
when they're 15 and they're almost 15. even though she flat out tells him no as he leaves I think the
idea is that she does need the money to cover up her Rebel transactions but I think that's where
luthin comes in because he has this giant pile of money in because right after the scene we go
straight to Luthen's shop so they want you to be thinking about Luthen and mon mothma's Association
I think they'll tie up that plot line by the end of the season so we'll know for sure exactly how
she's going to wrap that up but like I said I think it's going to have something to do with
lucan's Rebel money they stole from aldhani one of the other interesting details during their
conversation too is that you notice that mon mothma refuses to look him in the eye and she
gets really pissed off when she finds out about her husband's association with him like oh I hang
out with your husband all the time oh I bet you do they make it sound like she actually kind of hates
her husband and the way that davo talks about chandrilan marriage customs and the separation
between husband and wife makes it sound like they live really separate lives and that's a regular
thing in the history of their people in the way that in medieval times in real life you'd have a
lot of political marriages and husband and wife wouldn't actually be in love with each other so
oftentimes there'd be a lot of infidelity in the marriage and usually was tolerated as long as it
was kept off the radar so to speak like when you start having scandals public starts finding out
about it that's when people start getting stabbed and getting their heads chopped off so he's just
making it sound like Mon mothma and her husband just don't know exactly what each other are doing
during the day when we go to Luthen's shop it seems like they've only moved around a couple
of the artifacts and easter eggs behind him these giant horns here seem like they're the
same types of horns from Mas Amedda's race he's a chagrigan in the rounded helmet that he scans
is the one that Padme wears during the prequels the one next to it I think we've all agreed is
a wookie battle helmet I've already talked about a lot of the easter eggs in the back of the shop
too like he has a duplicate Starkiller armor the giant box on the right seems like a Jedi
holocron but it's really big for a Jedi holocron usually a little bit smaller if you remember a
couple episodes ago too on the left side on this wall here we actually saw an Indiana Jones easter
egg these are the stones from Temple of Doom in real life lucasfilm just announced that they're
actually working on an Indiana Jones TV show for Disney plus but I don't know what it's going to
be about or if it'll be like a continuation of the young Indiana Jones chronicles presumably
we'll see it in a couple years so we'll find out pretty soon what it's about then we get our big
prison break this is one of my favorite parts of the episode this and Luther's scene at the
end of the episode their first countermeasure to short out the floor security system that shocks
the bulkheads is it just flood the floor when they start attacking the guards and climbing out they
do show you that a couple of them do die in the process like this isn't a completely bloodless
escape the minute they head up the stairs and they show you how far up it is just made me
think of that scene from Avengers end game with the Hulk the Hulk versus stairs so many stairs
inside the control room before they take it over the guard's next reactionary measure is to fry a
bunch of the levels like they fry that entire level before to keep the prisoners quiet but
this time with the prison break they're like okay we'll shut down a bunch of the levels when they
do take over the control room andor repeats their orders back to the guards on program
and Kino Loy gives this big rousing Escape speech basically to tell them to get the hell out one way
out repeating that line of dialogue the title of the episode I believe it was meant to be about 5
000 total prisoners in that particular prison his whole speech is also meant to be a metaphor
for the Rebellion just in general the whole idea that it's better that they die trying to escape
rather than comply with the Empire they're sort of the same idea with luthan's character like he
is prepared to die he knows he is going to die in the act of rebelling against the empire but that's
better than doing nothing earlier this season Andor also made a couple references to the guards
being relatively weak and poorly equipped most of the ones who aren't already dead are hiding behind
this locked door waiting for everyone to escape before they come out just sort of paying that off
like oh yeah they are pretty sucky guards Kino Loy not being able to swim seems kind of like a
tragic moment like they don't show you what winds up happening to him because you only see Andor and
melshi running away at the end of the episode so you're like what happened to the rest of the
prisoners that escaped did they all die did some of them get away I think they just want to leave
you wondering what eventually happens to Andy circus's character like he could still be alive
or he could have died in the attempt he could have just drowned while they were trying to swim away
but I think part of the idea is that a number of these people who do Escape will eventually wind
up joining the rebellion and just because they only show us Andor and his friend at the end of
the episode doesn't mean that they're the only two that wound up escaping but a bunch of these others
swimming away probably did subsequently die during their attempt and if you think it's weird that
someone like Kino Loy wouldn't be able to swim even in real life like in First World countries
there are a lot of adults who still cannot swim if you can believe it surprisingly there are a lot
of drowning deaths every single year around the world then probably the other biggest reveal of
the episode is that dedra's co-worker her fellow supervisor is part of the Rebellion or has been an
informant working with them from inside the belly of the Beast so to speak the whole time and just
to be clear he is meant to be the same rank as Dedra so he has the same level of authority just
over a different part of the Galaxy he was the supervisor in the previous episode who alerted
them to increased activity near scarif which is meant to be a reference to the events of Rogue one
and the Death Star like activity is increasing towards that part of the system because of
everything the ISB is doing trying to create the Death Star the place where they go to meet is in
coruscant's lower levels where all the Shady stuff all the criminal activity gets done remember that
Coruscant is a planet-wide city that just built on top of older City and as the city gets bigger they
just continue building on top of the previous City like all the wealthiest people live on the
top and all the poor people live underneath so you have thousands and thousands of years of City just
built on top of older City they explored some of this during the Clone Wars like Ahsoka travels way
way down to the lower levels they do a good job of visual storytelling during this too with a
lot of his actions like he grabs for the calm knowing that it would be there without having
to look for it meaning that they've done this before but Luther says it's been about a year
since they've actually met with each other the way they explain their backstory is that he's
been working with luthin helping the rebellion and they've kind of been informing each other
like Luthen feeds him information which he uses to advance his rank inside the ISB for the past
six years and he's been tipping off Luthen helping the Rebellion along the way the whole thing with
lutherly threatening the life of his newborn daughter is also meant to let you know that
he's not helping the rebels completely willingly and he's trying to continue to ensure his loyalty
like oh by the way you have that daughter we want to do everything we can to make sure she
has a wonderful life and a wonderful father the whole idea with this is just to show you that
the rebels do things that are just as shady and bad as the Empire short of full-blown genocide
like they do with the Death Star later like as bad as the rebels are and they are doing things
that are really bad especially Luthen all this collateral damage that he's totally fine with
the Empire is still worse the reason Luthen lies about their involvement in the heist on aldani
like he denies that he was connected to it I think it's him hedging his bets in case Lonnie winds up
being found out and interrogated by Dedra so that it doesn't wind up confirming her suspicions if
he is caught and that's also why he's willing to sacrifice Anto Kreeger it's only 50 men they're
worth it we don't want to tip off the Empire we want things to continue as usual also when
Luthen says that he's doing all this for Lonnie for him it's just to psychologically manipulate
him as an informant to keep him loyal to the cause keeping him wrapped around his finger so
to speak because I think if Lonnie had protested too much Luthen would have killed him unless they
do a good job of foreshadowing all this stuff during their conversation Luthen telling him
about sacrifice and there being no way out for either of them and it being kind of a parallel
for Kino Loy's statement one way out but for them it's a tragic statement and it means that they'll
both probably wind up dying in the cause the one way out will be them dying Luthen's whole speech
here at the end of the episode also probably one of my favorite speeches in all of Star Wars
recently we'll see if they topped this during the Mandalorian season 3. like there's been a
lot of great Mandalorian episodes but I feel like Andor has really taken at next level with some of
the character dynamics and like I said when he talks about the 15 years ago the equation that
he wrote that's meant to be during the events of Revenge of the Sith when that was all going down
when he also references sharing his hopes and dreams with ghosts I think that's him saying in
so many words that his loved ones died like his family died and that's one of the things that
helped Inspire him to create the rebellion and we see Andor and the other future Rebel Melshi,
continuing to escape on foot and obviously I think the reason why they showed us farex
briefly during the episode is to just let you know that Andor will come back to pharynx and
that's what we're going to end the last couple of episodes if there are any other easter eggs
and references that you spotted in the episode that I didn't talk about in the video just write
down below in the comments and let me know do you think the Kino Loy wound up surviving their
escape attempt my full episode 11 video will post next week after they release it there's
a bunch of stuff happening this week too my black panther will come a forever post credit
scene video and full breakdown in easter eggs for the entire movie will post later this week
be sure to go see the movie as soon as possible everyone click here for my review of the movie
and click here for my other post-credits scene video I'll update the link as soon as I post
that video thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!